Our 2025 season

Run dates: April 3-6 & 10-13, 2025

Directed by Elizabeth Shaffer

It's 1848, and Edgar Allan Poe is just coming off the spectacular success of "The Raven." Unfortunately, it's only earned him a grand total of nine dollars. So when a wealthy dowager commissions him to write her a poem for the vast sum of one hundred dollars, he leaps at the chance. Only problem: the man who shows up to write the poem isn't Poe, he's Poe's mailman, and he's on a quest to woo the dowager's spinster niece. Playing Poe is harder than it looks, though, especially when your mustache keeps falling off, the teenage grand-daughter of the house is lusting after you, and Poe's arch-nemesis, Rufus Griswold, just happens to be dropping by to settle old scores. It’s a freewheeling, closet-hiding, door-slamming farce with an hilarious touch of the macabre!  

Edgar/Richard Muffinbridge :  Eric Landuyt 

Edgar Allen Poe (the real one) :  Derek Bolme 

Rufus Griswold:   Eric Friedman 

Henry Whitford:  Jacob Lund 

Brinsley:  David Shaffer 

Mary:  Cali Van Zandt 

Helena Dowling:  Elizabeth Hulsbrink 

Sarah  Dowling:  Dana Skiles 

Abigail  Dowling:  Shyan DeVoss 

Director:  Elizabeth Shaffer

Stage Manager:  Pat Kelly

Light and sound designer: Dana Skiles 

Light and sound operator: Lena DeLellis 

Costumes: – Suzanne Rakestraw 

Set builders: – Jim Skiles, Mike Skiles 

Run dates: May29- June 1 & 5-8, 2025

Directed by Megan McConville

Truvy Jones runs a successful beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all her regular clients have a standing Saturday appointment. Along with her anxious and eager assistant, Annelle, Truvy styles the hair of many of the women about town: wealthy widow and former first lady of Chinquapin, Clairee Belcher; local curmudgeon Ouiser Boudreaux; intelligent and compassionate career woman M’Lynn and her daughter Shelby, “the prettiest girl in town.” Shelby’s engagement is the talk of the town, but the joy and excitement of her wedding later turns to concern as she faces a risky pregnancy and a myriad of health complications. As the ladies of Chinquapin make their way past life’s many hurdles, they draw comfort and strength from one another, along with a fair amount of verbal ribbing. 

Truvy Jones - Jessica Moore 

Annelle Dupuy-Desoto -  Megan Abell

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie -  Leslie Day  

M’Lynn Eatenton -  Suzanne Rakestraw 

Ouiser Bourdeaux -  Heidi Hamer

Clairee Belcher -  Pam Kobre  

Director - Megan McConville

Stage Manager -  Terri Nelson 

Crew - Bella McConville 

Light & sound designer/operator - Jennifer Kingry 

Set builders - Jim Skiles, Mike Skiles